TAG: Tokyo

Sep13

E.S.Q. & Chikaramanga – The Succession (Review)

ESQ & Chikaramanga

The Succession

Released by TRES Records


What do you get when a Japanese beatsmith and an emcee from Chicago meet in Los Angeles through the celestial power of hip-hop music? You get a versatile and aurally delicious hip-hop record much like The Succession, a hard-hitting, timely album from TRES Records integrants E.S.Q. & Chikaramanga. The flavors sprinkled throughout this debut showcase the talents of E.S.Q. as an artist of the spoken word as well as TRES co-founder Chikaramanga’s skills with the technologies of the MPC (especially the MPC60 and the S3000). Their musical chemistry is ...

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Sep25

Summer Sonic 2008 :: Justice and Fatboy Slim

Justice and Fatboy Slim bring the dance to Japanese festival 

The 9th edition of Japan’s leading rock and dance fest in the Tokyo area went off with huge bang for dance fans as two of the best sets came from France’s hip beatsters Justice and the phat grooves of Fatboy Slim.

In a clever programming twist, Summer Sonic is held simultaneously in Osaka and Tokyo over two days, and the bands play each city respectively, thus reversing the line-up of the two major metropolises in Japan. In Tokyo, the venues consist of the giant convention hall called Makuhari Messe (Messe is from the German for hall) and the Chiba Marine Stadium, which is home to the baseball team the Lotte Marines. In Makuhari Messe, three stages host a myriad of acts with the Mountain stage being the biggest, fitting nearly 5,000….

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